...the southern slave plantation bourgeoisie kicking and screaming into industrial capitalism.

The slave economy was a drag on the more developed form of capitalism that was about to revolutionise the world. Everything else is just window dressing and fancy speeches.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      I mean, he didn't shoot that fucking snitch, take Harpers Ferry, and ride across the South on a tide of blood and terror, at the head of a Liberation army.